CIA WHISTLEBLOWER TELLS DARK SIDE OF SPYING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200840002-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 20, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PARKERSBURG NEWS (W.VA)
20 April 1983
CIA sJe1bower Tells Dark:
Side of,SpYhg '.
-By DENNIS RUDNER Angola, resulted in the 'CIA -suing Stockwell said.
Of The News Staff him3, and seizing all profits from that Finally . the lies and -betrayal of
publication. those he worked with-for two years in
ATHENS, 'Ohio - Espionage. dirty .. Stockwell saidihatin reality it was Vietnam forced Stockwell to re-evalu-
tricks, propaganda and covert dh? CIA that had invaded Angola. ate his position with the zagene y.:The
actions --not to.-mention 'the thou- `47be-Soviet ,Union, 'Red. China and CIA dumped V ietaamese -agents In
.sands of lies. All in-the.average day '**ba'.told The world the truth about order to save 'corrupt leaders
tor' a Central intelligence Agency at_they were doing?in Angola, The during 'the massive withdrawal from
t o an ex-CI - . -
S: Pied. ~Va nevex~syggesstexl writing Vietnam in 1977..
csgent, sexordiagto an ezCIA agemt 3L' ?`I can't describe -bow' l felt," be
tockwellsrqppedstraiBht .,, ,.~Z called said. Be .added it-was Alice soup
:''m m the pagesefa2amesBond
thriller, to give.a candid view of .CIA ?a y, survived and recruited had been raped. _ ~.. . r _
recruiting and fts ogeratioas to about "sg is on propaganda- "wet A ?' duple of :montlss ter ~e a+as
200 people at Ohio University Tues couldn't trust the Russians. 'The CIA "thunderstruck" when he was sent to
created -and seined ,on that Soviet Angola to help get anew government
day night elated. But when the lies continued
Sell he ` ever -'Tam the CIA contacted him to -from The likes of New York Sen.
ranking CIA Agent wto oP~y join, 'Stockwell said. -it was "like a Daniel Moynihan and .termer Secre-
criticize the cal dream. The agency was held tary of State Henry Kissinger, -Stock.
Africa After 13 and years Vietnaas asm, , - field
Stockwell -saw saw In Pretty good repute at that time well decided to tell what the Central
l
what the agency stood for, and how (1954)." _, _ : Intelligence Agency was all about.
U.S. lies were killing innocent people The CIA recruited-case agents who
around the world. He had had enougb.e~ *the -brightest and smartest.
of the "dirty tricks." T ey. lead -dignified lives, Stockwell
His book "In Search of Enemies;,' said. They're not 9 feet tall with iron
written following the `United States'-
bungled attempts to "liberate" At the time of -his recruitment,
;Stockwell said-be didn't know that 400
Journalists were cooperating to put
propaganda in newspapers or that 500
professors were cooperating to build
files on students, or that the CIA had
published 1,000 books stilted to the
"There were ao rules for survival.
Effective espionage was essential to
-subvert and destroy the enemy," -he
,said
. '.Since its inception in 1947, the CIA
has taken part in several, hundred
seovert actions a year; Stockwell said,
including:
a 19-year secret war with China
that included parachuting men inside
China;
?. A .installing the, Shah lof 11 an to
power, which led to 80,000 deaths
tirom his secret pollee :.force, the
r"we bad the bomb. Secrecy pre -
vented us - from hearing about It,"
Bayaof ,Pigs invasion that shat-
.tered -John F. Kennedy's .hopes for
;Tha+e was eo retaliation because
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